Word: reach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Walsh snorted, without disclosing details: "It is almost unbelievable that a political election could reach such a low level! . . . The American people would be shocked!" Senator Sheppard said in advance that the campaign looked so bad it pointed "sharply toward an election contest in the U. S. Senate, regardless of which group's candidate triumphs...
...Buell). "If this economy drive keeps on, we'll end up using midgets for actors." To hefty, thrifty Movie Producer Jed Buell this crack of a subordinate was intended as a reproof. Instead it gave him an idea. Soon he was collecting all the midgets he could reach through agencies, advertisements, radio broadcasts ("big salaries for little people"). They drifted in by twos and threes. From Hawaii came a troupe of 14. At length he had 60 of them, averaging three-feet-eight in height, about 70 Ibs., ranging in age from 19 to 65. Meanwhile, his writers turned...
World's largest producers of children's "compo" (cemented) shoes, Collins-Morris will be operated separately from Hamilton-Brown's factories, which turn out men's and women's shoes. Dapper President Collins last week predicted its plants would reach capacity production. at which time there would be only two larger shoe companies in the U. S.: Endicott Johnson Corp. and International...
...President Roosevelt's National Resources Committee last week reported that the U. S. population will reach a minimum peak of 139,457,000 in 1960 (based on low birth rate, medium death rate, no immigration), or a maximum peak of 174,330,000 in 1980 (based on high birth rate, low death rate, no immigration). Between 1935 and 1975, persons 20 to 44 years old will increase by 6% , persons...
...Department of Commerce's Bureau of Air Commerce stood to lose firm political footholds if the centralization move succeeded. But this year the proposals were revived, promptly got mixed up in the Reorganization squabble. Pat McCarran had designed his bill to keep aviation well out of White House reach. Representative Lea's, more to Administration liking, sought to centralize control in the executive branch of the Government. Chief Administration argument was that since aviation is so closely related to national defense, its control ought to be centred where the President and his State, War and Navy Departments could...